Meadows Endowed Professor,
Director of B.S. Aquatic Biology Program

Research Interests

Our interdisciplinary research program is committed to understanding, through experimentation, how historical processes, contemporary processes, and anthropogenic stressors influence population and community patterns. This understanding provides the necessary underpinnings to make predictions on how populations and communities will respond to additional anthropogenic stressors (e.g., instream flow modifications, climate change) and can be used in management and rehabilitation of our natural resources. We use aspects of taxonomy, species biology, evolution, ecology, behavior, and zoogeography to advance our understanding and work with a variety of organisms (aquatic parasites, aquatic insects, mussels), although our primary organisms of interest are freshwater fishes.

Ichthyology Fall 2022, with Sophia Salo, BS Aquatic Biology